Adegas Valmior Davila M.100

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Saina Nieminen

Saina Nieminen
Adegas Valmior Davila M.100 2007 13% abv; Loureiro, Caio Blanco y Albario; in French oak barrel of 2500 liters (I don't know for how long and what age oak); Ras Baixas, O Rosal

This was a Christmas present from my boss. We import Valmior to Finland but I don't think we sell this M-100 (I think we only have the Albario, regular Davila and the L-100 as a "special").

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I was scared because of the mention of oak on the back label, but I shouldn't have been: I don't sense any new oak aromas. It is enormously fragrant, quite like a Viognier in its boisterous, peachy aromas. It is also mineral and slightly grassy so the in-your-face floral fruitiness doesn't become too much. Very full bodied, but high in acidity, crunchy even. It makes my mouth water and it dances on my tongue yet oddly enough it is at the same time so heavy that I wouldn't call it moreish. It quite overwhelmed my poor little steamed pangasius-fish.

A hugely interesting wine, but at least now it is too weighty for me. I wonder what a year or two in the cellar would do for this?
 
Only you can guess, Otto. No one in the whole wide world seems to have tasted this exceedingly rare wine.

I am surprised at the 'weighty' aspect, though. Loureiro and cao in the blend tend to make it lighter than a 100% albario would be. And given the order the varieties are mentioned on the label, this means that there's at least as much cao and loureiro as albario in it, possibly one third each.
 
originally posted by VS:
I am surprised at the 'weighty' aspect, though. Loureiro and cao in the blend tend to make it lighter than a 100% albario would be.
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Well I finished this last night, and I stick with my observation of weight coupled with joyous acidity. I wonder if the oak aging could cause an increase in weight? Or tiny yields? I really have no idea where the weight comes from, but it was almost a Rhne white heavyness (though with better acidity).

I knew this was rare, but I thought someone else would surely have tasted it. Or the previous trials that Valmior did with smaller oak casks before deciding that 2500 liters was optimum.
 
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